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In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, a whiskey bottle filling machine works inside Indiana Whiskey in South Bend. Breweries, wineries and distilleries in Indiana and Michigan are experiencing delays because some permits are not being issued due to the partial federal government shutdown.

In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, a whiskey bottle filling machine works inside Indiana Whiskey in South Bend. Breweries, wineries and distilleries in Indiana and Michigan are experiencing delays because some permits are not being issued due to the partial federal government shutdown. (Robert Franklin / AP)

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Did you people that voted for Trump really expect any thing more than a New York thug? Get real.

Our new U.S. Senator Mike Braun is turning out to be exactly the Trump tool that we knew he'd be, pressing for the president to declare a fake national emergency in order to get the wall even most GOP, including his own chief of staff, think "childish."

Remember Chicken Little and her hysterical report that "the sky is falling," and how the unscrupulous fox takes advantage of the fear to work his wiles? That's the fairy tale version. In our present, Donald Trump is the whole cast: simultaneously Chicken Little, ginning up fear, and the sly fox trying to take advantage of it.

There's a very quick solution to the shutdown. All TSA workers need to call in sick for a couple of days. Massive chaos will happen almost instantaneously. Trump and spineless Mitch will almost immediately sign the reopening law recently approved by the Democratic House.

Trump's campaign promise was to built a wall at the border and Mexico was going to pay for it. Why is he now demanding the he needs $5 billion for this wall. He has a partial shutdown for government workers and made a stupid remark that most of the government workers that will not be getting paid are Democrats anyway. It doesn't matter what political party the people belong to, they need their paychecks! Trump is trying to run this country like he is a dictator, he can't arbitrarily make laws that he wants, it doesn't work like that. When I use U.S. postage stamps, I turn the flag upside down on the stamp which is the signal for distress, because this country is in distress with this person as president.

If Trump only had a face worth saving.

We are witnessing a governing class whose lust for money and power is combined with such an intense intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes religions, cultures, and nations, which makes them ruthless in their use of deceit to attain their ends.

Fake news, oh you mean the kind where the president of the United States and his staff intentionally mislead the voters in order to push their agenda? Oh that kind of fake news — they are sorry, it was a mistake — everyone makes mistakes, and they are really sorry they got caught.

If there's a blizzard of voting Democrats coming like a commenter suggest, because the old white conservatives are dying off. Then why would a Senator like Karen Tallian from Portage, or Hillary Clinton and the Democrat party in general, be so eager to abolish the Electoral College? That doesn't sound like there to confident in that weather forecast of new voters to me, instead it sounds like a cry for help.

Most presidents have used the Oval Office addresses for noble purposes. This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration.

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

I watched the president's speech last night like most of America. The takeaway was that President Trump says we have a problem with illegal immigrants and Pelosi and Schumer say we do not. I watched it on ABC and that was my biggest disappointment. Right after the president ended his speech, three separate ABC reporters made their separate and brief speeches bashing our president on issues and numbers that were not even part of his speech. These were not news reporters, they were scandal magazine reporters. What happened to the old days where you turned on the news and got the unbiased news?